It’s been what – at least a decade? – since we started seeing reports of personal and corporate information left on drives that were being resold on eBay? And yet even now, 2/3 of drives contain personal or corporate data, according to a new study.
Month: June 2016
San Jose man sentenced to 17 years for role in ID theft ring victimizing dozens
A San Jose man today was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for masterminding what San Jose police believe is one of the most extensive and insidious identity theft rings in the city’s history. Tri Van Nguyen was sentenced by the Hon. Socrates Manoukian following his plea to 87 felony counts earlier this…
Rhode Island Data Breach Update Now Effective
Liisa M. Thomas writes: The Rhode Island updates to its breach law that we previously reported on are now effective. As a reminder, under the amended law, notice is now required 45 days after “confirmation of the breach,” and the Rhode Island attorney general is to be notified if 500 Rhode Island residents are impacted….
264,000 and counting: Hack of EHR/EMR vendor leaves clients scrambling
What data security incident currently holds the undesirable status of 2016’s largest incident involving patient data that has been reported to HHS?* There’s a good chance you’ve never heard about it because the company has remained publicly mute. San Jose-based Bizmatics, Inc. designs and markets electronic health record and electronic medical records practice management software…
Hacker who stole $50G from George Soros’ foundation sentenced up to six years in prison
Lauren Klose and Reuven Blau report: The computer hacker who stole $50,000 from a nonprofit run by George Soros was sentenced Monday to up to six years in prison. Computer expert David Kupratis, 31, of Parlin, N.J. twice assumed another person’s identity and then filched a laptop computer and cellphone from a third person in…
French police hit by security breach as data put online
BBC reports: The personal details of 112,000 French police officers have been uploaded to Google Drive in a security breach just a fortnight after two officers were murdered at their home by a jihadist. A mutual organisation which provides extra health and other insurance benefits for police says the details were uploaded by a disgruntled…